The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-29
MENTIONED IN THE PAPERS,
What Is Said ef People Whom the Pre-.
Sees Fit to Notice.

What Is said cf People Whom the Press
Sees Fit to Notice.
Miss Mary G. Burdette, sister of the
humorist '.Bob" Burdette, is winning
marked success as a religious lecturer.
Princess Beatrice has given herself to
the now fashionable study of photog-
raphy, and is turning out creditable
portraits.
Katkoff was of plebeian origin and had
a hard fight to win his position in the
face of the proad aristocracy of Russia.
His father was panamar or sacristan of
the Moscow cathedral, and the future
power behind the throne' was COLI
temptuously called s'Panamarvitch' by
his fellow students at the university.
Bret Harte, of London, has grown
gray, but looks younger than he did
when here ten years ago. His color is
quite English. 1t is the fresh color of a
man who lives a careful, regular life.
He does not look unlike Lord Wolseley,
adjutant general of the British army.
Mr.. Harte is living very quietly and goes
out but little, being engaged on new
book for which he is outstanding all his
resources.
Alphonse Daudet is no longer in good
health. From a strong, athletic man, a
lover of out door recreation and sport, he
has gradually become morose, anxious,
despondent, slave to strained nerves.
He used to get up at i'll the morning
and do his best work in the cold. Now
he writes when he can. He reads no
books, opens no letters, and husbands his
failing strength with the most tender
care.
Felix Regamy, Partisan artist, well
known in Boston, has made the interest
ing discovery that a French plaster
molder named Hubbard has in his posses
sion a full sized bronze copy of the marble
statue of Washington by Houdon, which
he will sell for $500. NJ. Regamy sug-
gests in The Paris Figaro that the United
States government purchase the bronze
statue and present it to the gallery of the
Louvre.
Gen. Longstreet is living quietly at
Gainesville, Ga, writing a book ON the
war. As he finishes chapter he sends
the manuscript to Washington to have all
dates and figures verified from the official
records. The general says: 81 expect
both sides to pitch into me, and 1 am tax
ing time to be certain of all my state
| ments." Gen. Longstreet's publishers dc
not care to have him say very much con-
corning the book, but it is understood
that the volume will create much discus
sion and will be especially interesting tc
those who understand the technical de.
tails Of the science Of war.
| Lawson n. Fuller, who, with Russell
Sage, will try to break the 2:37 record fol
four-in-hands on Fleetwood track this
| fall, says he hasn't missed a meal ir
thirty-three years, and attributes his
| healthy appetite to continuous driving.
81 am never tired of driving" he says
and driving is the best and most gentle
exercise after eating. Horseback riding
| is altogether too violent. l have driver
300,0 miles ON this Manhattan IslanC
alone, When l was 4 weeks old my
mother rode on horseback with me in hel
lap, and when was 4 years old l gal
loped alone on horseback from st. Albani
to my home in Bakersfield, fifteen mile:
away. But stick to driving if you wan
an appetite and good Digestion
Mile. Drounin, who was arrested IL
England as a dangerous person, is /;
school teacher, who inherits from he
father a talent for modelling, and whc
was innocently preparing to ramblt
through England with the modelling clay
which was mistaken for dynamite. Only
Il short time ago the luggage of a New
England lady was seized at Liverpool
and the owner put through course O
sharp questions, because something tina
the custom house officials took for dyna
mite was found in one of her trunks
Only when she broke piece off the luml
and ate it with evident relish could tn,
officials be persuaded that it was bricl
of maple sugar that she was taking to he
| friends in Fnoland